December 4th, 2008
This is Special Agent M8s.
Target is being drawn deeper into the Manifestive, which – and pardon me for jumping the gun here – strikes me now as being a single indivisible entity. Roots and trees are springing up in all quarters, and the little presents and baubles decorating them are becoming more numerous. The further the target goes, the denser the Manifestives. It’s turning into a forest in here.
I have two disturbing incidents to report. The first was when the target and his friends actually sighted that ghastly creature you’ve sent to process the Manifests. I can barely stand to look at it, but they took it in their stride. Where did you dig that thing up, anyway? We’re lucky they didn’t approach it.
The second incident was the more personally mortifying. My initial fears may be well-founded, my peer may prove to be a liability. The Agent – and I think I can drop all caution now and say that it was certainly Agent B – confronted me today in a threatening manner regarding my report of December 1st. I have to say I am disappointed he has been able to hear the contents of my report, which I took to be confidential or even top secret on an international level.
I find this Agent to be unsettling at the best of times, but add into the mix a very deliberate and perhaps genuine sense of threat, and he can be quite overwhelming. Whatever sympathy I have for him and his condition is wearing thin.
There is a new development. Target has acquired an account of past events. It appears to be a significant story, because it does not seem to have the standard snow-globe form. I will bring you more details of this when I can. But you know what it means. The Spirits are in play.
Repeat, the Spirits are in play.